|  Expedition food is notoriously, well, average to say the least. Sure, the dehydrated packs are designed to give you enough calories to survive, even if you are carrying a heavy rucksack, but when it comes to enjoying a meal, most are sadly lacking in the flavour and texture front. These aren’t.
I have used Drytech Real Turmat foods as my staple diet in the Arctic, the Antarctic, Borneo, Botswana and even Somerset. You can understand someone using a dehydrated meal in the middle of nowhere, but these are so good I sometimes use them as a quick meal when I’m in a rush in the UK. And truth be known, I sometimes brew one up when I have all the time in the world!
The range of flavours is broad, from Chicken Curry and Game Casserole to Beef and Potato Casserole (my favourite!), and includes a veggie option. There are even a couple of breakfast recipes.
Each pack weighs about 150g, so they are easy to carry in your back- pack on a day trip. Preparing the meal couldn’t be easier. Just rip off the top, pour hot water up to the fill line, stir, seal the pack and stand for 5 mins. Then eat straight from the pack. Each dinner meal is enough to make you feel full, (that’s a rarity too in dry pack foods) and has about 500 calories, so enough to keep walking up that hill!
Because they are vacuum packed, they keep for ages too (about 5 years), so you can store any you don’t use ready for your next trip.
All that has made me feel peckish! |
